Ok....I'll bite. Since the obvious has already been stated above...and I suspect there is a deeper meaning too your question, because you believe you
cannot do it. People have been told there whole lives that this is impossible.

that's what i thought i'd hear, but consider that we are capable of doing more. what if we've been told to believe that it cannot be done over and
over, so many times that it only seems that way. would one ever be able to re-program their thought process, or has it been dug too deep? either way,
just speculate with me here people!

I understand your motive, DS...
Though I've never seen it done, much less done it myself, I'll meet you with with the following logic; Nothing is impossible, if you can imagine it,
it can be done. I'm thinking; human imagination is always ahead of our actual abilities...(Da Vinci...Star Trek?) *s*
That is what drives us.

So with this in mind...What you're proposing, may dismissed as defying physics, but on the other hand, it may not be altogether impossible with a
little wide angle lens perspective on our potential as a race....

Well, since step two is "pick up a pen/pencil", that makes it rather easy...Just use your mind to move your hand while the pen/pencil is still in
it...
...Simplicity itself...

Okay, on a more somber note, there is a theory that "static reality" prevents you because that's the reality imposed upon the world by billions of
minds that (mostly) all believe that it's telekinesis is impossible. The only people who can actually do it would be those whose will is strong
enough to impose it's own paradigm upon "static reality" & alter its "physical laws" so that the object *can* be moved by sheer will.

This is a theory that most refer to as "negative vibes from non-believers" & is what makes it so hard for a telekinetic to perform while under
observation.
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Still, the (humorous) first method I mentioned works every time, because it stays within the parameters of "static reality" & it doesn't matter who
is observing...

I did it once. I got a stack of scribbling (consciously performed scribbling, as I was hoping it would form magic words). How long does it take to
see results? Or are only certain people attuned to the spirit world? Or could it be that it is simply bunk?

Right now I don't have any pencils or paper sitting around, so its fairly impossible for me to do as of this moment.

The Experiment
There's a famous quantum physics experiment called the "double-slit experiment," which was one of the first proofs that all this wacky stuff was
actually true. In the double-slit experiment, you shine a light through a piece of cardboard with two small slits that allow the light to pass
through. On the other side of the cardboard, is a piece of film. When the photon hits the film, it leaves a spot, so you can measure where the
individual photons land.

Intuitively, this is pretty simple: One photon, two slits. The photon has to go through one or the other slit. So what you'd expect is to find a
whole bunch of photons grouped near each of the slits, since the photons obviously went through either one slit or the other. And if you only have
one slit, that's actually what you get, a clump of photons near the slit. THERE IS NO WAVE!

But when you have two slits, everything gets insane. Instead of two clumps, you get a pattern, as if a wave had simultaneously hit both slits, passed
through and became two waves which interfered with each other. THERE IS A WAVE! BUT THERE ISN'T! There are only photons, one after another.

When the photon can only go through one slit (one possible course), there is only one photon traveling in a line. When there is more than one
possibility, the single photon no longer exists; it becomes a wave of imaginary photons traveling along various possible paths. Nevertheless, when the
photon eventually lands on the film, there's only one photon. If you only release one photon at a time, you still get the interference pattern, even
though there's no possibility of more than one photon on the path at the same time.

The wave is a real thing. It affects where the photon lands. But the only way it can be real is if the photon actually exists in every possible place
it could exist at the same time, which it clearly doesn't. But the experiment works in exactly the way described, which means all this is true. From
this point, all bets are off. Once you accept the paradox that unrealized probabilities have a tangible existence, almost anything becomes
possible.

Telekinesis
If you run the double-slit experiment explained above, but put a detector on each slit to determine for certain which slit the photon went through,
the interference pattern disappears and you get the clumps of photons you would expect. In other words, the act of simply knowing which slit the
photon went through changes the outcome of the experiment. Therefore, in principle (but not in currently imaginable practice), a specific state of
mental knowledge could theoretically cause a change in physical states without direct interference.

Go to the link at the top to read about this in more detail.

So now what do you think? Are you setting the limits of what is Real and what is Possible?

I find it easier to make objects in motion stop...don't know why... It can be done... I've only been successful once with something as big as a
pencil...and even then, it was only a slight turn, but still, it was enough to break my idea of reality... Maybe I won't be able to do anything
real amazing, but perhaps my kids' kids will.... Just like any other muscle, my attitude is to exercise it, when I have the chance...

The biggest trick to using psychic/psionic/majick powers of any kind seem to lie in the fact that you have to be able to believe in an alternate
reality that allows you to perform such abilities. The biggest problem that people must face & overcome to succeed is to know *what* to believe &
*how* to believe...Otherwise, you're stuck within the "static reality" that denies the existence of such phenomenon.

The "two slit" experiment mentioned already is just an indication of this basic "altered paradigm" theory...The theory was basically expressed a
long time ago (I don't remember right off hand who figured it out or when). The basic theory is that "The beliefs of the observer have a measureable
effect on the observed". In other words, whenever anyone tries to set up an experiment to observe the properties of a phenomenon, their beliefs
(paradigm) will make the observed phenomenon confirm to their paradigm; This is why any type of demonstration of psychic power is adversely affected
my a "negative-minded" observer.

In order to answer the original question...Most often, it is *you* stopping yourself or it's the person watching you that stops you...

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